Human Race Quotes - Page 34

• Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Knowledge, Race, Progress

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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• Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

  David Berlinski

  Memories, Military, Eugenics

  David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.21, Basic Books

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• The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes are closely and permanently united, and in which the autonomy of its state members and the personal freedom and initiative of the individuals that compose them are definitely and completely safeguarded.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Race, Class, Unity

  Baháʼuʼlláh, Shoghi (Effendi.) (1943). “Race and Man: A Compilation”

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• We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

  John Astin

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

  Monty Woolley

  Men, Race, Suffering

  "Fictional character: Sheridan Whiteside". "The Man Who Came to Dinner", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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• Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

  David Foreman

  Race, Environmental, Earth

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• Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

  Jean Giraudoux

  Race, Names, Suffering

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Men, Race

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• There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

  John Foster Dulles

  Race, World, Saving

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• Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

  Edward Abbey

  Race, Nuclear, Arms

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Race, Political, Viewpoints

  Frederic Bastiat (2001). “Economic Fallacies”, p.61, Simon Publications LLC

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• I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.

  Henry Adams

  Suicide, Believe, Men

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Revenge

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Fate, Thinking

  Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate, October 13, 1960.

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• Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.

  Hugo Chavez

  Race, Empires, Humans

  Hugo Chavez's remarks duting the Islamic Republic Medal ceremony at Tehran University in Iran, July 30, 2006.

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• I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Race, Perfect

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• In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore the survival of nearly the entire human race, along with such amenities as peace, freedom, enough to eat, and the chance to reach a high age in good health.

  Poul Anderson

  Space, Race, Civilization

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• Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

  Clifford D. Simak

  Light, Race, Years

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Space, Way

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• The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Eggs, Space

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• All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Race, Ignorant

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• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

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• I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, Race, Should

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• It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.

  Clarence Jordan

  Race, People, Together

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.76, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

  Harlan Ellison

  Peace, War, Race

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